Friday, January 28, 2022
Thursday, January 27, 2022
Love and Other Disasters
Looking for a queer-friendly rom-com? Anita Kelly's 2022 debut Love and Other Disasters, which launched January 18, could be just the thing. Disastrously married Dahlia goes on a cooking show and meets nonbinary London, who hopes to raise money for the queer community--sparks fly!
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Meet the 2022 Debuts!
We now have a website, https://2022debuts.com/, where you can learn more about us and about our books, which include mysteries, romcoms, thrillers, fantasy, science fiction, women's fiction, literary fiction, and pretty much anything else you can think of--something for pretty much any reader. Many of us are on Instagram and/or Twitter as well, posting about books and reading and many other things. Below, you can see just a few of us whose names begin with K!
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
How High We Go in the Dark
How High We Go in the Dark, by Sequoia Nagamatsu, is a 2022 Debut that has been prompting a lot of pre-publication buzz. It launches January 18th.
Set in 2030, it features an archaeologist discovering the body of a girl preserved in melting Arctic permafrost--and she appears to have died of an ancient virus. Arctic Plague soon sweeps the earth, altering human civilization. This is timely science fiction and I'm eager to read it!
Set in 2030, it features an archaeologist discovering the body of a girl preserved in melting Arctic permafrost--and she appears to have died of an ancient virus. Arctic Plague soon sweeps the earth, altering human civilization. This is timely science fiction and I'm eager to read it!
Monday, January 17, 2022
McMullen Circle
Heather Newton's book of linked stories, McMullen Circle, launches January 17th from Regal House.
From the Regal House website:
The twelve linked stories in McMullen Circle explore the intertwined lives of faculty families at the McMullen Boarding School in Tonola Falls, Georgia, in 1969–70. The school community is isolated and idyllic, yet issues of race and the Vietnam War still intrude. The stories in this collection ask what, or who, is a hero? Does heroism require physical prowess, or is there valor in a cafeteria worker enduring a cluttered, needy life with her four young sons (“Good Boys”), or an elderly school librarian caring for her disabled lesbian partner (“Twilight Song”)? In “Once and Always” a decorated World War II pilot feels his own hero status threatened when whites petition to have a black civil rights activist barred from burial in Arlington Cemetery. In “Wish I May, Wish I Might” a young African American girl finds the courage to assert her right to attend the all-white McMullen School. In “The Preferred Embodiment,” a headmaster realizes that his role as father-hero requires him to do more than simply not embarrass his child. In “The Stole,” “Things Summoned,” “Breaking Bread” and “The Walk,” two children learn the limitations, and the surprising extent, of their parents’ strength and integrity.
From the Regal House website:
The twelve linked stories in McMullen Circle explore the intertwined lives of faculty families at the McMullen Boarding School in Tonola Falls, Georgia, in 1969–70. The school community is isolated and idyllic, yet issues of race and the Vietnam War still intrude. The stories in this collection ask what, or who, is a hero? Does heroism require physical prowess, or is there valor in a cafeteria worker enduring a cluttered, needy life with her four young sons (“Good Boys”), or an elderly school librarian caring for her disabled lesbian partner (“Twilight Song”)? In “Once and Always” a decorated World War II pilot feels his own hero status threatened when whites petition to have a black civil rights activist barred from burial in Arlington Cemetery. In “Wish I May, Wish I Might” a young African American girl finds the courage to assert her right to attend the all-white McMullen School. In “The Preferred Embodiment,” a headmaster realizes that his role as father-hero requires him to do more than simply not embarrass his child. In “The Stole,” “Things Summoned,” “Breaking Bread” and “The Walk,” two children learn the limitations, and the surprising extent, of their parents’ strength and integrity.
Thursday, January 13, 2022
All the Salt in the Sea
All the Salt in the Sea, by Tammy L. Harrow, is a 2022 Debut about a wife escaping a powerful and untruthful husband only to discover that her attempts to settle things do not go as planned. The novel launches January 11th
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Daughter of the Moon Goddess
Daughter of the Moon Goddess, a 2022 Debut by Sue Lynn Tan, comes out January 11th and is inspired by the legend of Chang’e, the Chinese moon goddess. In this fantasy novel, a young woman’s quest to free her mother pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm. Advance readers are loving its richly imagined take on Chinese legend.
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